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Photo: Art Streiber / AUGUST This interview originally ran on February 7, 2018. We’re republishing it following Jones’s death at 91. In both music and manner, Quincy Jones has always registered — from

Marielle Heller sat in a post-production facility in lower Manhattan, looking shaken. It was June, 2023, and for months she’d been finalizing edits on “Nightbitch,” a movie with a Kafka-adjacent premi

A postmortem is meant to make sense of tragic occurrences and yet, at bottom, it is designed to soothe. “What went wrong?” is a perfectly sane response to something gone wrong, and the postmortem help

In August of this year, Current Affairs editor-at-large Yasmin Nair wrote a blog post with a confident title: “Kamala Harris Will Lose.” Nair warned that Harris was already repeating Hillary Clinton’s

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In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential

On August 24, 2020, as I attempted the first pee of the morning, I felt a tightness on the underside of my penis. A tiny hair had formed a tourniquet around a skin bridge on the genital. I was not in immediate pain, but I knew that something irrevocable had happened, as if time itself had caught up…

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Adjust Share I’m a father now. Please, hold your applause. As I write this, my son is fifteen days old, and I’m staring into the soft hurricane whorl of his hair, thinking thoughts as cute, pink, and

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The revelation that ChatGPT, the astonishing artificial-intelligence chatbot, had been trained on an Nvidia supercomputer spurred one of the largest single-day gains in stock-market history. When the

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Adjust Share A t twenty-six, in 2006, the year before the iPhone launched, I found myself driving a red Subaru Outback—the color was technically “claret metallic,” the friend who’d lent me the car had

Can a fashion brand make aging cool? If any designer can do it, it’s Phoebe Philo. The beloved Brit launched her eponymous brand Monday, and the 150 looks that debuted on a bare-bones website suggest

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We are Jewish writers , artists, and activists who wish to disavow the widespread narrative that any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. Israel and its defenders have long used this rhetori

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In the past few years, accounts of San Francisco’s unravelling—less like a tired sweater than a ball of yarn caught in a boat propeller—have spread with the authority of gossip or folklore. As the pan

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I have few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father of a four-year-old. My son and I have great times together; lately, we’ve been building Lego versions of familiar

The tenth graders heading up Madison Avenue at 7:30 A . M . to the private high schools are freshly liberated from their dental braces, and their teeth look pearly and magnificent. They are fifteen ye

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Joe Casabona’s love affair with Wirecutter began in 2013, when the site recommended a pair of inductive winter gloves—the kind that let you interact with a touch screen while staying toasty. They work

It was the Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend on Further Lane, the best street in Amagansett, the best town in the Hamptons, and the art dealer Larry Gagosian was bumming around his eleven-thous

“Black Mirror,” the anthology series best known for dreaming up dystopian uses for near-future technology, took aim at its own network in the timeliest episode of its most recent season. Settling on h

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Credit... Cedrine Scheidig for The New York Times Guram Gvasalia of Vetements reveals that he has been making the costumes for Madonnas postponed tour right in the middle of couture week. It was a cla

Two days before Christmas, rain and high winds knocked down power lines on our road, in a small town in northwestern Connecticut, and that night the temperature dropped to the single digits. I worried

MARIA BUSTILLOS: So speaking of things that absolutely suck, let’s talk about ChatGPT. DAVID ROTH: It’s hard to know where to start with this, but I think it’s good for me to get on the record and say